Woolpert is an architecture, engineering, geospatial and technology firm. They do projects that range in topic from designing renovations for student housing on college campuses to providing LiDAR data for Hurricane Sandy. Woolpert has been around since 1911 and with their history they have competitive advantage. They employ cutting-edge technologies and processes for clients in the federal, state/local and private sectors across the US.
Senior Vice President Shane Imwalle explains that “For projects such as the environmental algae bloom in the Great Lakes, we’re building a LiDAR point cloud model that will help them model solutions. In addition to our extensive experience mapping impervious surfaces for stormwater management in urban areas, we’ve provided LiDAR-generated impervious surface mapping for the Pennsylvania Lake Erie Watershed. This watershed is part of the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem, and is the largest surficial fresh water system on Earth. The impervious surface mapping we’ve done here has been vital to watershed planning and its restoration projects.”
“Allowing individuals to flourish and various groups to pursue opportunities where they see potential for growth” is one of their key strategies to move forward in the future. Woolpert provides traditional orthophotography, color infrared, multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, thermal, and LiDAR data. They can also provide recommendations for softwares to use for GIS with a vendor-neutral, and unbiased suggestion. They will implement what is best for your project. Woolpert also does water monitoring and modeling. “As for sustainability, the ability to have this precision in stormwater management and to know where the water’s flowing provides such an advantage. We can devise systems to retain stormwater and develop retention basins. Out in California, there’s subsidence because of the water table. In extreme instances, the ground has lowered 50 feet in the last 50 years. This makes it vital that we constantly retain our stormwater runoff and seek water retention methods leveraging remotely se
Written by Elise Mazur, 8/6/2015